Earlier this year MTV launched gender-neutral categories during the TV and Movie Awards. MTV had already received a lot of critics with this first gender-neutral award won by actress Emma Watson for her role in "Beauty and the Beast."

For the MTV Video Music Awards that will take place this month, there will also be gender-neutral awards.

The prize for the Best Female and Best Male Video will be combined into the same Artist of the Year trophy.

The nominees for this category are:

Ariana Grande

Ed Sheeran

Kendrick Lamar

The Weeknd

Lorde

Bruno Mars

LGBTQ artists have been nominated for the MTV Music Awards such as pansexual singer Miley Cyrus in the Best Pop Video category for her song "Malibu", lesbian rapper Young M.A has been nominated for Best New Artist, and the openly bisexual singer Halsey was nominated for Best Cinematography for her song "Now or Never".

Miley Cyrus and Angel Haze talk about their pansexuality on the occasion of the release of new songs.

The singer Miley Cyrus has announced the release of her new album. While waiting for this seventh album, the singer gave an interview to the musical magazine Billboard in which she reveals she has reached maturity and that this new album will be more engaged, more feminist and political. And she also tackled about her pansexuality:

"I’m a little bit boyish, but I can also be super femme and dress as a bunny rabbit. Who I’m with has nothing to do with sex — I’m super open, pansexual, that’s just me," she said.

She also hopes that she brought some love and showed a positive image by being part of the jury of The Voice, especially after the election of Trump.

"By sitting there after the election in head-to-toe pink, while on the inside being a gender-neutral, sexually fluid person, hopefully, that was saying something. I needed some sparkle in my life, to make me able to deal. Radiating love is something that is important to me --hopefully, that is being political," Cyrus explains.

As for singer Angel Haze, she is also back with a new song titled "Resurrection" after several years of absence. She also talked about her pansexuality with the same magazine and spoke about her difficulties in understanding her sexual orientation.

"Oh my god, that s–t is crazy because it still exists in my day-to-day life—knowing what Christians or the world may perceive as wrong, is a part of me. I fight myself sometimes on whether or not I just want to be straight, or just be f–king gay so that I can get it all over with. It’s a push and a pull, definitely," she said.

"When I was young because I didn’t understand what was going on. I didn’t understand that I could be attracted to men and women at the same time. I went through a lot of s–t. It really takes a toll on you. I have a lot of fans who are lesbian and gay, or even just queer in general. Everybody needs to have patience with themselves. At the end of the day, all of our opinions are informed by the pressures of other people."

]]>info@lezbelib.com (E-Li)Life,Sex & RelationshipsThu, 25 May 2017 00:02:53 +0000Indiana Governor Mike Pence Thinks The Law Which Allows Companies Not To Serve LGBT People Is Not Discriminatoryhttps://www.lezbelib.com/us-news/indiana-governor-mike-pence-thinks-the-law-which-allows-companies-not-to-serve-lgbt-people-is-not-discriminatory
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Last week, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a bill allowing businesses and churches to refuse service on the grounds of religious belief. But where it is pitiful is that the Governor Pence does not even know the law he signed.

Indeed, this weekend, at a press conference, Governor Pence called the idea that the law enables gay people to face discrimination «completely false.»

He even added: «We will fix this and we will move forward.»

He previously wrote in the Indy Star: «This bill is not about discrimination… and if I thought it legalized discrimination I would have vetoed it.»

Singer Miley Cyrus posted a photo of Pence on Instagram with the caption «You’re an a-hole.» Hard not to agree.

Big companies have opposed this law as Apple or Salesforce whose director said on Twitter that he would «cancel all programs that require their customers/employees to travel to Indiana to face discrimination.» He urged other companies to do the same.